Sweet Smell of Roses Early in the morning on one of my first days at Aid to Women, I opened the back door from our second-floor kitchen. With the front windows also open, I was hoping to create a cross-breeze to reduce the hot, humid air. My immediate effect was to scatter a flock of starlings. I sipped my morning coffee and [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is an interview with Diane Coleman, founder of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet, by Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Not Dead Yet is a co-sponsor of the upcoming International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide that is entitled: Current Issues – Future Directions. The International Symposium, Nov. 30–Dec. 1, is being organized [...]
On Oct. 10, Ontario voters will decide the future of the province’s electoral system in a referendum that asks: Which electoral system should Ontario use to elect members to the provincial legislature? The existing electoral system (First-Past-the-Post) The alternative electoral system proposed by the Citizens’ Assembly (Mixed Member Proportional) The Liberal and Conservative parties are both neutral on the question, although prominent [...]
Snakeoil is a traditional Chinese medicine that treats joint pain, but the expression is more often used to describe the wildly exaggerated and sometimes fraudulent claims made in selling concoctions that will remedy or cure all sorts of ailments. But it is no exaggeration to call governments, some health officials and many in the media the 21st century snakeoil salesman in their [...]
Everyone who follows these things knows that the leaders of the three major parties hold socially liberal views on abortion and homosexual rights and that the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives and New Democratic Party are either officially pro-abortion/pro-homosexual rights or extremely tolerant of abortion and special rights for homosexuals. In interviews with Xtra, a Toronto homosexualist newspaper, PC leader John Tory and NDP [...]
The Interim has been criticized by some for its editorial position against proportional representation. This comes as no surprise, considering the criticism that Campaign Life Coalition has received for years over its (similar) stance on the issue. People of goodwill can disagree on this issue; how we choose our politicians is a matter of tactics, not morality, and as such, a civil debate [...]
This paper supports the right of parents to educate their own children as they see fit. Whether it is choosing the best government-funded school for their children within the public or separate school system, sending them to independent religious schools or educating their children themselves at home, such decisions are best made by parents. We also understand that whatever constitutional guarantees there [...]
National Affairs Rory Leishman In a 19th-century classic, the eminent philosopher John Stuart Mill admonished parents not to hand over the education of their children to the state. He warned: “A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases [...]
Indeed, many things are not as simple as black and white. Reasonable people have always understood this. So, why is it that we more frequently hear the expression: “It’s not so black and white,” or variations thereof? The reason is that we live in an age of moral relativism and the expression is often an indicator of just such a relativism lurking [...]
When pro-family supporters predicted that with the change in the legal definition of marriage to include gay “marriage,” the door to polygamy had been propped wide open, they were roundly shouted down as alarmists and extremists in the House of Commons and the press. During the debate on same-sex “marriage,” Liberal minister of justice Irwin Cotler adamantly insisted that polygamy would not [...]
“Mind you, I don’t plan to be sexually active till at least 16,” said 13-year-old Kalen on national television, while her mother responded with laughter. “We have that on the record now,” she mom, smiling. The two were being interviewed for CBC’s The National in an in-depth look at the new vaccine Gardasil, which was unleashed this September on Ontario’s 13-year-old girls and [...]
Canada 2006 census figures released by Statistics Canadashow that same-sex couples with children are more likely to get “married” than same-sex couples without children. University of B.C. law professor Fiona Kellyhas found that “married” lesbians usually cite their children as the reason for getting married … The Vancouver Sunreports fully one-quarter of clients at one unnamed fertility clinic in that city are [...]
September is upon us and campus pro-life clubs across Canada are gearing up for another year of activism among their peers. Every year, pro-life students balance their studies with the task of informing their campuses about the reality of abortion: it kills a human being and it harms women and society. Not everyone agrees with these sentiments, especially on the predominantly liberal-minded [...]
Head of Vermont Alliance for Ethical Health Care talks with The Interim Editor’s Note: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg interviewed Dr. Bob Orr, president of the Vermont Alliance for Ethical Health Care, for The Interim. On March 21, 2007, the Vermont Legislature rejected Bill H. 44, which if passed would have legalized assisted suicide in Vermont. The bill was defeated [...]
A recent United Nations report on international abortion policies reveals that, while most countries worldwide allow abortion in extreme cases in order to save the life of the mother, only a minority allow abortion on demand. The July 2007 Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, report stated that abortion on demand is only permitted in 28 per cent of the [...]